For Kavenna, this freedom is a reason to be optimistic about the future: "The digital age," she says, "is an extraordinary revolution in consciousness.
"She is one of the most dynamic, creative and influential legal thinkers of the past 30 years, having had extraordinary influence raising consciousness about international human rights violations in the realms of rape, prostitution and other forms of sexual abuse," said Geoffrey Stone, a prominent University of Chicago law professor.
When he was filmed in 1986 for Jonathan Miller's extraordinary documentary "Prisoner of Consciousness," Clive showed a desperate aloneness, fear, and bewilderment.
But he breaks from the first person and broadens the long poem to give it an extraordinary inclusiveness, making the consciousness a collective, grieving nation.
The critics and obituary writers will reach for the right genre to apply, probably converging on "magical realism" – that way in which the everyday, the vernacular, relates and expands through some drawn-back veil of consciousness to the extraordinary and the questions that propel, or sanction, human existence.
He discovers more peaceful states of mind by directing his everyday, practically-oriented consciousness towards more extraordinary, universal and less-individuated states of mind, since he believes that the violence that a person experiences, is proportional to the degree to which that person's consciousness is individuated and objectifying.
Earth Day was an extraordinary expression of a new consciousness, at a time when photos from space first revealed the beauty -- rapturous to millions -- of our fragile home in the universe.
The comment of Rashi regarding the Jewish people "seeing the sounds" is explained in Kabbalah in the following manner: at the giving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai, in order to perceive the Divine revelation, all the physical senses and dimensions were unified, as were all levels of human consciousness in an extraordinary union of physical and spiritual synesthesia.
"What works of art testify to is the presence in this world of consciousness, consciousness of many extraordinary kinds," he writes in "The Literary Miracle".
Such is the curse of self-consciousness, which gives us extraordinary insight into ourselves but whose companions are melancholy, alienation and paralysis.
